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Release Notes v1.5.3
Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v1.5.3.
For people upgrading from previous versions you must read the Upgrading Notes section of our documentation:
https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/1.5/installation/upgrade_notes
Changes
Fluent Bit v1.5.3 is the next patch release on v1.5 series and comes with the following changes:
List of general changes
Core
- engine: validate connection event thread is not null
- stacktrace: fix can not print stack trace when Fluent Bit runs in container (#2421)
- lib: chunkio: upgrade to v1.0.5
- dump: use stderr instead of stdout when getting SIGCONT (#2438)
- parser: use built-in flb_strptime() instead of system strptime() (#2311)
- gzip: fix uncompress routine and add crc32 checks (#2396)
- io: tls: add connect_timeout handler routine
- io: tls: do not assume handshake is in async mode
- io: fix blocking mode
- io: split logic for sync/async connection
- http_client: fix format string mismatch (#2442)
- upstream: fix async mode check and set missing co-routine context
- upstream: upon KA reuse, validate socket
Plugins
- Tail (Input)
- When option
exit_on_eofis set totrue, wait for all the files to be read (#2436)
- When option
- Stackdriver (Output)
- Abort initialization if ‘project_id’ is not set
- Add
tag_prefixoption to configuration - Fix metadata not assigned correctly
- Construct local_resource_id from tag
- Support special fields: timestamp, httprequest, sourcelocation and insertid
- HTTP (Output)
- If
json_date_keyis set tofalse, skip date key
- If
- Tcp (Output)
- If
json_date_keyis set tofalse, skip date key
- If
- Stdout (Output)
- If
json_date_keyis set tofalse, skip date key
- If
Contributors
On every release, there are many people involved doing contributions to different areas like bug reporting, troubleshooting, documentation and coding, without these contributions from the community, the project won’t be the same and won’t be in the good shape that it is now. So THANK YOU! to everyone who takes part of this journey!
Since the list grows every time, it’s hard to mention every single person involved. In the best effort possible, we are mentioning people who have signed contributions in our GIT project history through commits. We would like to thanks to the following people who have been involved doing coding, bug fixes, documentation and general contributions to this release:
Join us
We want to hear about you, our community is growing, and you can be part of it!, you can contact us at:
- Slack: http://slack.fluentd.org
- Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fluent-bit
- Github: http://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit
- IRC: irc.freenode.net #fluentbit
- Twitter: @fluentbit